Insight Into a Bright Mind: A Neuroscientist's Personal Stories of Unique Thinking

by Nicole A. Tetreault

Recent groundbreaking research examining the minds of the most highly intelligent, creative, and intense brains translated by a neuroscientist through interviews, storytelling, and literary science. Insight Into a Bright Mind explores new directions for the neurodiverse experiences of humans. You will learn how your brain is as unique as your fingerprint, and how your experience is elevated because you're simply "hard-wired" differently.

Genres: Parenting

472 pages, Paperback

Published March 30, 2021

Reviews

[Helen W · Rating 5 out of 5]

I forget how I came across this book but am so glad that I did. It proved timely as I had recenly discovered that I have the trait of "intensity" along with neurodiversity and giftedness, all of which "explain a lot". A few years earlier and it would have proved very hard indeed to find any material addressing these overlapping topics and how it FEELS to be the person actually living with them.

Tetreault has created a novel offering that is both scientific and practical, plus extremely well resourced (Tetreault has a PhD specialising in neurodevelopment and deorodegenerative disorders and is dedicated to making the most promising research accessible for individuals) yet also personal and compassionate, addressing the felt experience of living with a bright mind from the inside out, as well as from the objective viewpoint. As such, I felt "accompanied" by her and her numerous personal insights throughout the book's easily accessible material, all of which offers a positive, indeed celebratory, spin on what it is to be unique, complex and extremely hard to pigeon-hole. She also addresses the trials and tribulations of growing up, navigating school and beyond, along with the many foibles and repercussions of high sensitivity and "feeling different" in a mainstream world. I discovered much to learn from, also a great reseource for my own writing, not to mention oodles of morale boosting material and I feel sure I will return to its pages again and again.

[Markovian Muse · Rating 4 out of 5]

Raised my understanding of living with a bright mind and a neurodivergent brain. It helped me develop a new understanding of the interplay of exceptional giftedness, ADHD, trauma, anxiety and depression in my own life .